CONTENTS. 



Riift formed by American Ants 



Blind Ants .... 



Ki^lit proceedings of Ants 



Proceedings during rain 



Experiments . . . . 



History of a hibonring Ant, by M. Huber 



GlazHtl Artificial Foimicaries 



Section of a Mason-Ani's 



Experiments by J. li. . 



CHAPTER XV. 



Structures of the Wood-Ant>,or Pismires 



Materials employed . 



Coping of their nest 



Interior structure 



Glazed Formicary for experiments 



Their proceedings at night-fall . 

 Carpenter-Anls 



Eininels, or Jet Ants 



Their galleries in Trees 



Extremely populous colony at Brock 



Dusky-Ants 

 Foreign Ants 



Sugar-Ants of the West-Indies 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Structures of Wliite-Aiits, or Termites 



Their extraordinary comparative heigl 



Their mining operatioiit 

 The Warrior (Termes (jillicosus) . 



Used as delicate food 



Commencement of their nests 



Royal chamber 



Nurseries 



Galleries and covert ways 

 Turret-building Whitc-Anis, 



Singular form of their nests 

 Whife-Ani!< of trees and timber 



l)eath-^^■atch 



CHAPTER XVJI. 



Spinnine-Caterpillars 



Maiiifdlrl advantages of spinning 



Slruiliire of theii legs and feet 



Side s)iiriicli-<i for breathing 



Internal structure 



SliiiclHie of the silk-tube 



Mode of spinning djscribed by La Pluche 

 Silk-Worms . . . 



